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Castaway
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Operatic soprano from Modena, Italy; grew up with Luciano Pavarotti and frequently performed with him.
On the island
Eight records
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini
the first time I I was in the concert I heard uh this symphony. Uh I was really crazy about I w it was very young.
I choose because I am a really admirer of Maria Carlos, because for me she assigned a very, very important thing in in the in the opera.
Michelle, because in this island I want to have something If not not possible to have my daughter, I hear the Beatles, Michele, Michele, and I think about her.
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Alexis Weissenberg, with the Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
I chose this because I I was in this concert with Weissenberger Karian in in Paris. It was a very great evening.
my daughter she discovered this record and uh I remember one day she running uh around me all because uh she once I heard this Mamma, listen, listen, listen, this is interesting, this is new
Mirella Freni, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
I'm sorry, but I must choose something for me, butterfly. ... only one, only one. I don't like too much to hear my m my records in this time. ... Because always I find it something is not good. But in this case I'm alone, perhaps I start to to love Spranny.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:34Did you and Luciano Pavarotti know each other as children?
Oh yes, we grew up together. Uh we are uh brother in milk. ... we take the the same milk from the a woman in manufactory tabax. ... My mother and the parotis mothers, they work together in the manufactory like Armen. And and they are are really, really, really friends. And uh for this reason they put us in in one ... like kindergarten ... and th there there was this uh woman uh she gave us uh the milk.
Presenter asks
4:00Was there a lot of music in your family when you were young?
Yes, everybody la loved music, and two brothers of my mother one was a baritone, the other a tenor, and always they take m me into the opera, in the concerts, you know, and I grew up always with music.
Presenter asks
5:05Where did you make your debut?
Imodena ... In nineteen fifty five with Michaela in Carmen.
Presenter asks
5:14Were you very nervous [for your debut]?
The keepsakes
The book
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind is very very big long I have I have uh time to to read.
No, not at all. Really I I wait uh the moment to to go on the stage for to sing and uh I had so many friends on gallery, you know, all the parents, all the friends, and um they sent me many flowers. I was really excited and uh and uh ... I love it to sing. ... Now I must say that I am little afraid more than than than when I have done my mighty boot.
Presenter asks
7:21Why did you decide to take two or three years off almost immediately after your debut?
Yes, be because uh I I got married and uh I have had a daughter. Uh I was really so young and uh slim, too slim to be a opera singer. ... And uh I I decide with my husband to to to wait a little for to grow up.
Presenter asks
16:33How far ahead do you book your work?
Until eighty one ... It's incredible. I'm afraid because sometimes I think ... Mirela, I don't know if you still in good voice in in eighty one. And my daughter, mamma, you can cancel. Don't worry about this.
“I choose because I am a really admirer of Maria Carlos, because for me she assigned a very, very important thing in in the in the opera.”
“I never sang before this role and I know only the area, you understand? In in two days I learned it with my husband and I remember when I leave from the airport, I start to cry with my husband. I said, I am not sure, I know very well the role, I don't want to leave and my husband said, No, you must go and I start uh in Covingan in this way.”
“I fight with the audience in the night, but uh there was many things prepared, you know. Sometimes this uh happened in in Italy. ... Now I think this was a very ... Good things because I come out more stronger after this experience.”